Just to jump in here, Xcentric has a point. In the nations where Islam is prevalent in the populations, the countries are not well developed, the governments are corrupt or non-existent, and education is, for the most part, lacking. It is not reasonable to make a sweeping assumption about a nation's people, based on religion, when it is far more the impact of a society & culture. For example, the brutal events of Croatia/Serbia, are you going to claim they're Muslims? Of course not...
Let's be honest about something here: The Judeo-Islamic-Christian religions are based on the "oppressed" motif. All three are appealing to societies/groups that are in some way oppressed. Judeo-Christianity has slowly, through centuries, been converted to a more accepted, middle-upper class status, as kings and conquerors adopted useful liturgy to sway its people into complacent servitude (Christianity moreso than Judaism). Islam, on the other hand, has remained popular amongst the oppressed, and has therefore adhered to more of the earlier, less civil, utilities for management of societies/war.
But it would be a mistake, as is demonstrated by spider's continued non-secular examination of non-secular and secular societies alike, to view these issues from a limited perspective. There are almost 1.5 million Muslims in the United States, the vast majority of which are law-abiding citizens respectful not only of the laws, but of the nation as a whole. If you close your eyes to this fact, and point across the oceans yelling, "Different! Different!," you're not demonstrating yourself to be informed, but prejudiced... and not of a religion, but of a culture.
